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Shandong (other)
Shandong ( zh, c=山东) is a province of China. In Wade-Giles, it is romanized as Shan-tung (other). Shandong or ''variation'', may also refer to: Places * Shandong Peninsula (Jiaodong Peninsula), a peninsula in northeast China that separates the Bohai Sea from the Yellow Sea, creating the Bohai Strait * Shandong Subdistrict, Shapingba District, Chongqing * Shandong East Circuit, a historical Chinese administrative division during the Jin Dynasty People * Shandong people, the people and ethnicity of Shandong Province * Tu Shandong (born 1961), Chinese engineer Groups, companies, organizations * Shandong Airlines (SDA), an airline based out of Shandong * Shandong Television (SDTV), headquartered in Jinan, Shandong * Shandong Heavy Industry, a heavy equipment and automotive company based in Jinan Sports * Shandong women's volleyball team, a women's volleyball team * The Shandong Stars: ** Shandong Golden Stars, a men's basketball team based in Shandong **Shandong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shandong
Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural and religious center for Taoism, Chinese Buddhism and Confucianism. Shandong's Mount Tai is the most revered mountain of Taoism and a site with one of the longest histories of continuous religious worship in the world. The Buddhist temples in the mountains to the south of the provincial capital of Jinan were once among the foremost Buddhist sites in China. The city of Qufu is the birthplace of Confucius and was later established as the center of Confucianism. Confucianism developed from what was later called the Hundred Schools of Thought from the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius. Shandong's location at the intersection of ancient and modern n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shandong Clique
Zhang Zongchang (1881 – 3 September 1932) was a Chinese warlord in Shandong in the early 20th century. ''Time'' dubbed him China's "basest warlord". He was known by many nicknames such as the "Dogmeat General" (), based on the name of his favorite card game or tonic. Biography Early life and career Zhang was born in 1881 in Yi County (now Laizhou) in Shandong. His family was poor. Zhang's father worked as head shaver and trumpeter, and was an alcoholic. His mother was an exorcist and "practicing witch". His parents eventually separated. Zhang stayed with his mother who had taken a new lover. In his teens, Zhang's family moved to Manchuria, where Zhang became involved in petty crime in Harbin. He successively worked as a pickpocket, bouncer, and prospector. At some point, he worked in Siberia, learning Russian. Zhang eventually became a bandit in the Chinese countryside, though served as auxiliary for the Imperial Russian Army during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904–190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dongshan (other)
Dongshan (Wade–Giles: Tung-shan; generally ) may refer to: Places * Dongshan County, Fujian * Dongshan District, Hegang, Heilongjiang * Tung Shan (mountain), Hong Kong * Dongshan District, Tainan, Taiwan *, a subdistrict of Yuhua District, Changsha, Hunan *, a town in Huarong County, Hunan *, a Dong ethnic township in Suining County, Hunan * Dongshan, Yilan (), township of Yilan County, Taiwan Former districts * Dongshan District, Guangzhou, Guangdong * Dongshan District, Ürümqi, Xinjiang People * Dongshan Liangjie (), a 9th-century Chinese Chan teacher * Dongshan Shouchu (), a 10th-century Chinese Chan teacher See also * Shandong (other) * Dong (other) * Shan (other) * Tung Shan (other) Tung Shan, Tung-shan, Tungshan, or ''variant'', can refer to: People *Tung-shan Liang-chieh (807–869), Medieval Chinese Zen teacher; writer of ''The Record of Tung Shan'' *Tung-shan Shou-ch'u (died 900), Medieval Chinese Zen teacher Places *Tun . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shandong Maple
''Acer truncatum'', the Shantung maple, Shandong maple, or purpleblow maple, is a maple native to northern China, in the provinces of Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, and to Korea. It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to tall with a broad, rounded crown. The Bark (botany), bark is smooth on young trees, becoming shallowly ridged with age. The leaf, leaves are opposite, leaf shape, palmately lobed with five lobes, to long and to broad, with a to petiole; the lobes are usually entire, but occasionally with a pair of teeth on the largest central lobe, and the margin is often wavy. The petiole bleeds a milky latex when broken. The flowers are in corymbs, yellow-green with five petals to long; flowering occurs in early spring. The fruit is a double Samara (fruit), samara with two winged seeds, the seeds are disc-shaped, slightly flattened, to across. The wings are long, widely spread, approaching a 180° angl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
